California · Nonprofit
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,096,686 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1B
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $1.7B
What Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital does
Mission
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is a 519-bed acute-care hospital located in the City of Santa Barbara. In 2024, the Hospital had 99,978 patient days, served 146,603 outpatients, including emergency services to 55,596 patients. The Hospital provides a wide array of inpatient and outpatient services, including but not limited to the areas of cardiology, orthopedics, neurology, trauma, labor & delivery, psychiatric, neonatal intensive care, pediatric intensive care, pediatrics, laboratory, imaging, therapy, diabetes, oncology, emergency and rehabilitation services. The hospital is diligent in ensuring that all patients have adequate access to care. All patients who do not present insurance are automatically screened for eligibility in government health programs and are assisted in applying for financial assistance if the patient does not qualify for any other assistance. Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital provides critical funding for community health needs through health care related community activities , financial assistance and external grants, while also realizing shortfalls in Medicare, Medi-Cal, and indigent care. Activities include screenings and health fairs; classes, clinics,…
$832,542,989 spentof which $4,709,439 as grants$985,587,139 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $832,542,989.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.8B to $2.0B (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ronald Werft
President & CEO
Board chair
Steven Zola
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $867k → $1.2M.
3 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $160M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital raised.
From the IRS filings of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 78% · 2019 32% · 2020 37% · 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
72% of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $191 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $191
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories LLC · disregarded
- Cottage Health · exempt
- Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital · exempt
- Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc · exempt
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital?
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,096,686 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $13,096,686 in grants to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 64 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing